Museum of Arts and Design reopening in NYC’s Columbus Circle

NEW YORK — The Museum of Arts and Design opens its new building at 2 Columbus Circle near the entrance to Central Park with a weekend of free admission Sept. 27-28, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

The museum was formerly known as the American Craft Museum.

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www.madmuseum.org

New York’s Museum of Arts and Design reopens in September in a new location on Columbus Circle.

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For opening day, artist Jason Hackenwerth has created large sculptures from latex balloons that he and others will wear and perform in outside the museum.

New exhibits will include “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” showcasing 51 artists who re-purpose mass-produced objects into art; “Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry,” with 130 works of jewelry from 1948 through the present; and selections of important works from the museum’s permanent collection along with a showcase of gifts from museum supporters.

The museum also just acquired a donation of 800 pieces of silver jewelry designed by tribal and ethnic artisans around the world during the 1900s. The jewelry is a gift from Daniel and Serga Nadler, who amassed the collection over 30 years during expeditions to Egypt, Morocco, India, Thailand, China, Greece and other places. The museum describes the collection of the unsigned pieces of wearable art as “one of the most comprehensive holdings of tribal, ethnic and contemporary jewelry in the world.”

After opening weekend, admission is $15.

Details at www.madmuseum.org.

— Associated Press reports